Does anyone use all attack and defense buff items?

[76561198055083273]

Before a fight do you use demondrug, might pill, demon powder, Adamant Pill, armorskin and Hardshell Powder or just 1 or 2 of offense and defense items instead of everything?

[Fat Pigeon]

Ill buff everything powder,mega drugs, seed 's + talon, charm and L food
But if you need a huge dmg push if a monster is asleep and you use something like a GS then you can use a Pill (it override the seed and give 25 true atk instead of 10 and have a duration of 20 seconds only)

[Armgard]

All the mushroom buffs for tempered animals and powders + seeds for tempered elders.

[76561198055083273]

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Ill buff everything powder,mega drugs, seed 's + talon, charm and L food
But if you need a huge dmg push if a monster is asleep and you use something like a GS then you can use a Pill (it override the seed and give 25 true atk instead of 10 and have a duration of 20 seconds only)

Isn't pills better than seeds? And the chef's special isn't the best thing to get?

[Prometheus]

I use demondrug, full meat meal and a full potion at the start of every hunt. The rest I only use for those special pains the ass, like Luna.

[Kyukyu]

Originally posted by gswarriors2011:

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Ill buff everything powder,mega drugs, seed 's + talon, charm and L food
But if you need a huge dmg push if a monster is asleep and you use something like a GS then you can use a Pill (it override the seed and give 25 true atk instead of 10 and have a duration of 20 seconds only)

Isn't pills better than seeds? And the chef's special isn't the best thing to get?

Pills give amazing bonuses, but only for 20 seconds. Only useful for wake-up hits with the might pill (because double damage taken on the first hit that wakes the monster up) and honestly I don't even see the point of adamant pills.

[Fat Pigeon]

In theory Pills are better then seeds and override its effect, they share the same buffslot , seeds in case of atk buffs provide you 10 true atk and pills 25 BUT it only works for 20 seconds, 30 seconds with item prolonger armor skill and a seed have a duration of 3 minutes like the powder.

If you want a short Burst DMG for a massive Alpha Hit us a Pill.

And no, the chef's isnt the best, you actually mix your own Food with the buffs you need for certain weapons/setups

[Venusgate]

Only on tough cookies like t-luna and golden pickle, and only then megadrug/mega armorskin. I don't have the patience to farm the upkeep for all the potions.

[Pafti]

Never. I always bring it, and used to use at least Demondrug in MHGU all the time, but I don't bother anymore.
It's just kinda boring to buff, pre-fight sharpen with PP(which I finally got yesterday) is already kind of a bummer, also buffing a ton of other stuff for 10 seconds would just be annoying. And for what? To go back home 20 seconds earlier?

Maybe I'll change my mind again with future Monsters, or when I see someone out damage me.
But until any kind of need for it shows itself, I'm just gonna focus on the fun parts of the game.

Edit: Oh, also used Mega Dash Juice in MHGU, ♥♥♥♥ was broken...

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

Originally posted by gswarriors2011:

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Ill buff everything powder,mega drugs, seed 's + talon, charm and L food
But if you need a huge dmg push if a monster is asleep and you use something like a GS then you can use a Pill (it override the seed and give 25 true atk instead of 10 and have a duration of 20 seconds only)

And the chef's special isn't the best thing to get?

It's much much better if you customize meals on your needs not the free extra HP component. You can handle HP situation by bringing a single Max Potion. Just use it if you feel like the fight's going bad. I always carry one AND a Farcaster on solo hunts especially on 1 faint ones. It's a free get-out-of-crappy-situation card and I'm surprised many people don't use it.
Skills like Felyne Slugger when using Hammers and Felyne Bombardier when using a Gunlance take precedence over a mere 50 health. Anyone who eats anything other than Elemental Resist L for Kirin hunts is a scrub, IMHO. Defense/Attack/Health can be buffed with potions and stuff. Element resist cannot be.

[76561198055083273]

Wtf I didn't know pills only lasted 20 seconds. Gonna use seeds from now on and gonna bring the things that let me craft max potions so I don't sue chef's special any more

[Kyukyu]

Originally posted by gswarriors2011:

Wtf I didn't know pills only lasted 20 seconds. Gonna use seeds from now on and gonna bring the things that let me craft max potions so I don't sue chef's special any more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=broPxLj_dks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drNmriVqeZ4

Thought these two videos may come in handy for some.

[Stationary Traveller]

Those videos are old and the data on them is wrong. All buff items add flat raw attack or defense, not percentages.

[Gift]

just use the mega demon and mega armor buff because they last for the rest of the fight.

[fairsalads]

Choose food type depend on each hunt, then eat all the mushroom, plus megadrug, mega armor (regular armor,demon drug do not stack with mushroom only mega stack), start fight = easy hunt for the most part lol

[76561198055083273]

So we can stack 3 things? demondrug and armorskin with the seeds and powders?